Good Morning All! Delta 2 cams have been down for 5 minutes. NEED HELP!

ADD: The embedded cams seemed to have come up twice for a few seconds. Then I try to log onto the zoomer cams and go back the embedded screen and they are down again. This happened twice so far.

ADD#2: Neither cam is on the nest so we will have no YT tape showing what is happening. Had the E Cam on Ma and had just pulled the W Cam up to get a view of the male on the other side of the tree.

11:20 am - Cams continue to go up and down. I was able to get onto the E Zoomer cam and set it on the nest but am not able to do the same for the W cam.

11:47 am - Cams still continue to go up and down but I was able to get the W Cam back on the nest so there's no problem there, but we cannot zoom at all at this point and can only get reports basically off of Youtube because the embedded cams are only staying up for a minute or so before they go down again.

9:42pm........To add to Darlene's post................All cams went down at about 9pm (not 7pm) tonight.........Embedded cams are still off.................managed to get both zoomers back for a second to move cams back to the nest.........but they are not staying on. Every cam is off.

"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time..............they have the heart"..........Elizabeth Andrew

Good Morning All! Delta 2 cams all went down around 9 minutes ago and have not come back yet. I was on the zoomer cams for 1 1/2 hours and they started stuttering during the last 15 minutes or so, and then went down. Both cams are on the nest.

9:00pm.........We have had quite a bit of trouble with all the cams today at Delta2. First the zoomers freeze, then go black. Then the embedded ones get a spinning circle and go offline. Usually takes reloading to get the zoomer cams back once everything comes back on again. Cam controls are not responding right away.............delayed........jerking and sputtering...........sound intermittent as well..............sure seems like issues with the signals being interrupted or something. Tonight was very bad.

"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time..............they have the heart"..........Elizabeth Andrew

Good Afternoon All! I'm not sure where to post this one, but have a question regarding the YouTube recordings for Delta. From what I have noticed we get a recording after the cams go down, and that recording shows all the time back to the last time the cams went down. We don't seem to have recordings unless and until there is an outage. So, this morning, we had a lot of activity but the cams stayed up most of the morning . Once the cams went down, the recording ended up being extremely long. I happened to see the recordings for both cams and was able to share the link to them on the Delta thread. But by the time that Jean went to view them they were removed from YT because they were too long. So what happens now? Do those tapes get split up into smaller versions? Or do we lose all that completely? I just checked a few minutes ago and don't see anything for this morning. I think the cams went down around 11:40 am nest time.

Good Afternoon All! I'm not sure where to post this one, but have a question regarding the YouTube recordings for Delta. From what I have noticed we get a recording after the cams go down, and that recording shows all the time back to the last time the cams went down. We don't seem to have recordings unless and until there is an outage. So, this morning, we had a lot of activity but the cams stayed up most of the morning . Once the cams went down, the recording ended up being extremely long. I happened to see the recordings for both cams and was able to share the link to them on the Delta thread. But by the time that Jean went to view them they were removed from YT because they were too long. So what happens now? Do those tapes get split up into smaller versions? Or do we lose all that completely? I just checked a few minutes ago and don't see anything for this morning. I think the cams went down around 11:40 am nest time.

Really good question, Sue, and I have no idea of the answer. Were the videos longer than the 4 hours the cams have on rollback/dvr on a good day? I've seen cams on other sites that seem to reset the rollback every hour and also have one-hour videos - and I'm guessing there's a correlation there. But I haven't seen an option for that with YouTube, though I haven't specifically searched for ways to automatically produce videos (and was quite surprised when I originally found videos on the site that we didn't post). I'm pretty sure that we could set the dvr/rollback so the amount of time one can look back is shorter - but don't know if that would affect how YouTube's videos work.

I'll try to do some research on that tomorrow, unless someone out there knows a bit more than I do about how YouTube works (which wouldn't take much - I'm trying to learn more about all our new software and processes, but there's a lot to learn).

Good Afternoon All! I'm not sure where to post this one, but have a question regarding the YouTube recordings for Delta. From what I have noticed we get a recording after the cams go down, and that recording shows all the time back to the last time the cams went down. We don't seem to have recordings unless and until there is an outage. So, this morning, we had a lot of activity but the cams stayed up most of the morning . Once the cams went down, the recording ended up being extremely long. I happened to see the recordings for both cams and was able to share the link to them on the Delta thread. But by the time that Jean went to view them they were removed from YT because they were too long. So what happens now? Do those tapes get split up into smaller versions? Or do we lose all that completely? I just checked a few minutes ago and don't see anything for this morning. I think the cams went down around 11:40 am nest time.

Really good question, Sue, and I have no idea of the answer. Were the videos longer than the 4 hours the cams have on rollback/dvr on a good day? I've seen cams on other sites that seem to reset the rollback every hour and also have one-hour videos - and I'm guessing there's a correlation there. But I haven't seen an option for that with YouTube, though I haven't specifically searched for ways to automatically produce videos (and was quite surprised when I originally found videos on the site that we didn't post). I'm pretty sure that we could set the dvr/rollback so the amount of time one can look back is shorter - but don't know if that would affect how YouTube's videos work.

I'll try to do some research on that tomorrow, unless someone out there knows a bit more than I do about how YouTube works (which wouldn't take much - I'm trying to learn more about all our new software and processes, but there's a lot to learn).

Judy, I wish I had paid closer attention, but I'm thinking it may have said 7 or 11 hours on it. On my computer when I go to YT it shows the length of the video before you actually start playing it. But it looks like there is one out there from yesterday that is 7 hours, and that one is working, so maybe today's was 11 hours.

Thanks, Sue - perhaps another piece of the puzzle - and definitely shows it's not related to the length of the rollback.

If we knew that YouTube always made a video (and if we had some way of finding it again) we could try to reboot the cams from time to time - though that may not take the cams offline long enough so they save a video.

Thanks, Sue - perhaps another piece of the puzzle - and definitely shows it's not related to the length of the rollback.

If we knew that YouTube always made a video (and if we had some way of finding it again) we could try to reboot the cams from time to time - though that may not take the cams offline long enough so they save a video.

So much to learn!

Judy, is that a lot of trouble to reboot the cams? If not, if we can do that every 6 hours or maybe even every 8 hours, so it's only 3 times a day, then that should work. The videos are actually pretty easy to find, but they take a little time (not too long though) to get out there after the outage. This is how I find them.....do the search on the cam you want, and you can even filter (far right of screen) so that it shows only today's and also sort it by upload date. Usually the one at the top is the most current.

JudyB - special request - when it's not so windy at Delta, I think we would like to work on the presets on the W Cam. I need to go through them all first to see what works and what doesn't but after that if we could set a date/time that would be great!

Judy, is that a lot of trouble to reboot the cams? If not, if we can do that every 6 hours or maybe even every 8 hours, so it's only 3 times a day, then that should work. The videos are actually pretty easy to find, but they take a little time (not too long though) to get out there after the outage. This is how I find them.....do the search on the cam you want, and you can even filter (far right of screen) so that it shows only today's and also sort it by upload date. Usually the one at the top is the most current.
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Not really, Sue - it sometimes takes a couple of tries to sign in (as you know better than I, doing it more often), but once I'm in, it's just a couple of clicks. If things slow down a little ( ), I can reboot one of the cams here and then post what time I did it so you can look to see if it made a video. Or if it doesn't slow down before my dinner time (which is about a half hour away), I can try rebooting in the early morning, when it's usually fairly peaceful. And we can post in the zoomer sign-in area that we're going to be testing this.

JudyB - special request - when it's not so windy at Delta, I think we would like to work on the presets on the W Cam. I need to go through them all first to see what works and what doesn't but after that if we could set a date/time that would be great!

Happy to help with that - I think I should be around quite a bit this coming week, though I don't know what the weather is going to be doing.

Judy, is that a lot of trouble to reboot the cams? If not, if we can do that every 6 hours or maybe even every 8 hours, so it's only 3 times a day, then that should work. The videos are actually pretty easy to find, but they take a little time (not too long though) to get out there after the outage. This is how I find them.....do the search on the cam you want, and you can even filter (far right of screen) so that it shows only today's and also sort it by upload date. Usually the one at the top is the most current.
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Not really, Sue - it sometimes takes a couple of tries to sign in (as you know better than I, doing it more often), but once I'm in, it's just a couple of clicks. If things slow down a little ( ), I can reboot one of the cams here and then post what time I did it so you can look to see if it made a video. Or if it doesn't slow down before my dinner time (which is about a half hour away), I can try rebooting in the early morning, when it's usually fairly peaceful. And we can post in the zoomer sign-in area that we're going to be testing this.

Judy, I googled what is the limit on Youtube videos and this is what I found:

Maximum upload size:

The maximum file size you can upload is 128GB or 12 hours, whichever is less. We've changed the limits on uploads in the past, so you may see older videos that are longer than 12 hours.

So based on this I am assuming this morning's video was longer than 12 hours.

WHITE ROCK
North WA & CU cams are freezing while zooming. Its been awhile( months?) since we had a reboot, so maybe do all 3 cams.
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live streaming down. endless circle thingy, and vertical lines: here is a scap of the 3 cam views

4.35am Delta Time. Delta cams are being hard to control, they are stiff, buzzing with sound intermittent and it is hard to pan around because they are very slow to respond and then move too move or not enough.

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